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Nigeria poll petitions dismissed"A Nigerian tribunal has dismissed both opposition petitions asking that President Umaru Yar'Adua's election last year be annulled...
"Lawyers for both losing presidential candidates, Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar, say they will take their cases to the Supreme Court...
"Correspondents say a Nigerian president has never lost an election challenge but the decision was not a foregone conclusion.
"The country's courts have been exerting their independence recently - overturning other controversial results from the disputed elections...
"The BBC's Andrew Walker... says the ruling will fly in the face of what many Nigerians experienced during the election but most have already accepted Mr Yar'Adua's election...
"'The broader issue of how you get legitimacy as a president in Nigeria rests much more with what you do in government,' African analyst Anthony Goldman told the BBC...
"Neither opposition candidates claim they actually won the election - they had called for a re-run..."
Labels: elections, judiciary, Nigeria, politics
posted by Ken Wedding @ 10:08 AM
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